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going to the mattresses 

Prepare for a battle or adopt a warlike stance.

In times of war or siege, Italian families would vacate their homes and rent apartments in safer areas. In order to protect themselves they would hire soldiers to sleep on the floor in shifts.

Ordinarily we would want to verify such stories before publishing them here as part of a phrase derivation. In this case though it isn't really important. The meaning of the phrase turns on the association in Italian folk-memory of mattresses with safety in wartime. The phrase wasn't well known outside of the USA and Italy prior to the Godfather movies. It was used there, and later in The Sopranos television series, to mean 'preparing for battle'. Whether or not the stories that originated it are true doesn't alter the fact that the screenwriters of those films used them in that context.
"That Sonny's runnin' wild. He's thinkin'a going to the mattresses already."

Mainly popularized by the film, "The Godfather."

mattrecide 

To kill a person while on a mattress,i.e. in bed.
Damn, that girl/guy is cute. I'd love to take him/her home and commit mattrecide.
mattrecide by jahnauasca February 22, 2008

going to the mattresses 

Going to war with a rival clan or family. Used in the mafia. Its when a mafia family sends someone out to get someone apartments and some mattresses for the soldiers of the family to sleep on while they hide out in saftey, waiting for a call to do something.
Sonnys thinkin' about going to the mattresses already.

going to the mattresses 

From the movie "The Godfather":

CLEMENZA: That Sonny's runnin' wild. He's thinkin'a going to the mattresses already. We gotta find a spot over on the West Side
going to the mattresses by slugbait October 22, 2006

Mattressexual 

Meh·tris·cex·ual~

⠀⠀⠀⠀~adjective~

⠀⠀⠀⠀To be sexually or romantically attracted to the inanimate object commonly referred to as Mattresses ("beds", "bunks", "sacks", etc.) regardless of the item's manufacturer or country of origin.
"Man I gotta hit they hay, ya'know what I mean?"
"For sure! I'm Mattressexual, so I hit it all the time!"

"My friend came out to me last weekend. I knew he was being real with me when he no longer wished to go the fuck to bed, but that he had wished to go to fuck the bed. I accept him greatly for this bravery in coming out as a Mattressexual."
Mattressexual by PsychAnon January 18, 2023

Mattresses In The Streets District 

Nate got sat on in the Mattresses in the Streets District, and now he needs a tetanus shot.
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